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[quote name='Rumble' post='22846' date='Jun 25 2007, 08:06 AM']No, sunburst with black scratchplate and maple board. Looks the biz! I'll strip it off later and weigh it They may have put an ultra thick layer of lacquer on it [/quote] I had a candy apple red skyline jo and it was really heavy, i sold it on, just wondered if it was the same beast, very nice tho.

[quote name='Rumble' post='22754' date='Jun 24 2007, 09:15 PM']Mine must have slipped out in the middle of the night then, coz there's no way it's under 10 Ibs. If it was it would be nigh on perfect. As it is I need to get my hands on one of the sub-10 Ib ones.[/quote] is yours candy apple by any chance?

[quote name='paul, the' post='21184' date='Jun 21 2007, 02:52 AM']I've heard the Joe Osborns are weighty - although I've never tried one.[/quote] Not so, my US Jo is 8 1/2 lbs.

Ive been watching this thread with interest to see what the response was, as I was the seller to wigfinder, and the other instruments sold on ebay. The weight does vary between instruments, and the one WFG bought was the heaviest I have seen, they weigh in between 9-11 1/2 pounds on my kitchen scales, and guess who has the heaviest one. I dont think it is the wood necessarily that gives it the punch, as the alder one is equally as punchy as the mahogany ones. I think they have just got plenty of windings on the pickup. I intended to replace my pickup with a Seymour Duncan, but Im not going to bother as its more than adequate as it is The bridges are basic but adequate, tuners the same. The jazz bass is nice, with the mahogany top no scratch plate and rear mounted controls. I bought a 335 copy, and that was extremely good. I beleive they are made in east europe, possibly eastern germany, but Im not certain. The quality for the money is outstanding. Biggest problem as you all seem to have found is communication from Bach

For a small package, if you make sure your shipper uses USPS air parcel post and does not insure and track it, it will generally come through the post office and not parcel force. If there is a tracking sevice, you will always get to pay the clearance charges and customs duty. Royal Mail [post office] is not the same as parcel force. and generally it seems that they dont bother with relatively low value parcels. I have avoided duty on virtually every hardware package sent that way in the past